CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Febiuary 20, 1915. 
FiRM TOPICS. 
Farmer Sharing Profits With Mtr.. 248 
Lime Carbonate as Stable Absorbent. 249 
Keeping Cabbage . 249 
Manure for Hill Lands . 249 
Field Eeans in Western New York...249, 250 
The Farmer and the Thief. 253 
Rolling Newly-seeded Oats . 253 
Potash From the Ocean . 254 
Farm News . 255 
Constituents of Complete Fertilizer. 260 
Seed Corn .. 261 
Hope Farm Notes . 262 
Manure Storage . 259 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Record-making Ohio Guernsey. 
The Leghorn and Wyandotte Leaders 
Beef-making in the East. 
A Champion of the Goat. 
Ice Cream Men Warm Up . 
Scours . 
Ringworm; Lameness . 
Bloody Milk . 
Epidemic Among Pigs . 
Ailing Cow . 
Bitter Milk . 
Indigestion . 
A Co-operative Milk Factory Pays.... 
Obstructed Teat . 
Weak Sow . 
Wound ... 
Indigestion . 
Rich Butter . 
Preventing Mold in Butter . 
Another ‘•Promoted” Creamery . 
Certainties of Dairying . 
P.'-uth Carolina Dairying . 
fllreaky Butter . 
T. : r Stock Notes . 
Parti. lity Against Profit . 
Live Gto It in Place of . 
Sheep Fr.r- -.ing in Eastcrr States. 
Keeping oil"go: Heating Hay. 
A Farm '.ar-^r- and Tuberculosis- 
Feeding Oil Meat . 
Value of Pumpkins .. 
Work of a Fair Association. 
The Egg-laying Contest . 
Feeding Green Bone .. 
Village Poultry . 
Age of Breeding Fowls . 
Buttermilk for Laying Hens .. 
Pullets Fail to Lay . 
Flashlight Egg Tester . 
Winter Egg Yield . 
Record of Scrub Hens . 
Care of Hatching Eggs and Brooders.. 
"ceding Turkeys and Pullets. 
Chicken Pox . 
Identifying Pigeons . 
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HORTICULTURE. 
Big Stories About Baldwins. 248 
Apples—A Badge of Shame. 250 
Vines for Screening House . 250 
Repelling Cabbage Maggot . 250 
A Cheap Hothouse . 251 
Soil for Hotbed . 251 
A Miniature Fruit Farm . 251 
Western N. Y. Horticultural Society, Part 
.. 252 
The Rabbit Curse . 252 
Care of Old Peach Orchard . 256 
Cold Water for Irrigation . 256 
Notes and Comments . 261 
Cutworms and Sow bugs . 261 
General PellisRier Hyacinth . 263 
Transplanting Laurels . 263 
Overpruned Grapevines .. 263 
Pollinating Walnut With Butternut. 263 
WOMAN AND HOME 
”rom Day to Day .. 266 
The Rural Patterns . 266 
Seen in New York Shops . 266 
"‘he Paby’s Bed . 267 
Help for Sprain . 267 
"he Friendly Kerosene . 267 
More Fried Pies . 267 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Buying a Barrel of Flour . 256 
Contract of Hiring . 257 
Lease Includes Fruit Trees . 257 
Outlawed Bill: Property in Trust. 257 
Fence Along New Jersey Railroad. 257 
Events of the Week . 258 
Water Supply Questions . 259 
Steel Bars for Icebox . 259 
A House of Concrete Blocks . 259 
Notes About Woodchucks . 259 
A Start in Bee-keeping . 260 
Editorials . 264 
Department of Food and Markets, Part II. 265 
Retailing Potatoes . 265 
Price of Wheat . 265 
New York Grange . 265 
Cleaning Rusted Pipe . 277 
Pumping Water to Barn . 277 
Publiser’s Desk . 282 
PRODUCE, PRICES AND TRADE, 
(Continued from gage 275.) 
"rades going at £1 to §1.25 per barrel. 
The new demurrage rules in effect Febru¬ 
ary 1. increase the expense of holding cars 
in the yards and make <piiek sales neces¬ 
sary. often at forced prices. Old cab¬ 
bage selling in a wide range, sound being 
N3 per ton higher, and considerable in¬ 
ferior in one way or another, going under 
no. 
Potatoes—Jersey, bbl. 1 25 @ 1 50 
Long Island, bbl.. 1 65 @ 1 9D 
State, 180 lbs.1 00 @ 1 70 
Maine. ISO ibs. 1 27 @1 70 
Bermuda, bbl. <00 @ 7 Oil 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 2 00 @ 2 75 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. .. 5 @ 17 
Beets. 100 bunches. 3 00 @ < 00 
Carrots, bbl.1 00 fit 1 27 
Chicory, southern, bbl. 2 00 @2 70 
Cabbage, old, ton . S 00 @17 00 
New. bbl. crate. 1 70 @ 1 75 
Horseradish, bbl ... 3 00 @5 00 
Kale, bbl. 67 ® 85 
Lettuce, balf-bbl. basket.. 77 @ < 25 
Onions—Red. bag . 100 @ 1 27 
Yellow. ... 75 @ 1 25 
White . 1 27 'o 1 75 
Peppers, bu. 3 09 ® 5 on 
Radishes. 100 bunches . 1 50 @ - 00 
Spinach, bbl. 2 0U @ 3 CO 
String Beans, bn.. 100 @ < 00 
Squash. Hubbard, bbl.. 100 @ 1 27 
Marrow. . 1 25 @ l 75 
New. bu. 1 00 @ 3 (10 
Egg Plants, bu. 1 50 (a 4 00 
Tomatoes, C-bkt. crate. 1 00 @ 4 Uu 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, lb. 16 @ 16'^ 
Fowls . ;i7 @ 18 
Roosters. 11 @ 12 
Ducks. 17 @ 18 
Geese. 13 @ 14 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, choice, lb. J22 @ 22}£ 
Common to good . ]2 @ 18 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 23 @ 25 
Broilers, common to good . 19 @ 20 
Roasters .. 23 @ 24 
Fowls . 
Capons, best . 
Sinai 1 and slips. 
Ducks. Spring. 
Squabs, doz.. 
IIA Y AND STRAW. 
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Market on the better grades of Timothy 
is firm : clover and mixed qualities rather 
slow. Straw selling well. 
Ila 5 '. Timothy, No. 1. ton . 19 50 @20 00 
No. 2.17 50 @18 50 
No. 3 .15 50 @17 00 
Clover mixed.17 00 @18 00 
Straw, Rye,.15 00 @16 00 
GRAIN 
Wheat made a net decline of two cents 
for the week, export demand being slack. 
Corn and oat business active. Since the 
first of July last this country exported 
204,416,000 bushels of wheat, 18,213,000 
<>f corn and 48.8o8.00J of oats. This ex¬ 
ceeds the same period the previous year 
by 72.044,000 bushels of wheat, 5,778,000 
corn, and 41.344.000 oats. 
W heat. No. 1. Northern Spring. 1 74 @ 
No. 2. Red ... 1 73 @ .. 
Corn, as to quality, bnsh. . 87 @ 88 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 63 @ 65 
Rye, free from onion. 1 33 @ 1 38 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native 8teers. 7 40 @7 75 
Bulls. 5 00 @ 7 00 
Cows. 3 50 @ 6 50 
Calves, prime veal. 100 lb-. 9 00 @1300 
Culls. 5 00 @ 7 00 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 3 50 @ 4 00 
Lambs . 8 Oil @ 9 75 
Hogs. 6 50 @ 7 50 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 17 @ 21 
Common to good. 12 @ 16 
Pacific Coast . 13 @ 15 
Old stock. 7 © 8 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
Those are not the highest or lowest fig¬ 
ures noted here, but represent produce of 
f ood quality n.,d the buying opportunities 
oil at lc\£t half of New York’s popula¬ 
te 
Eggs, fancy white, doz— .. 35 @ 40 
Mixed colors, new laid .. .... ... 30 @ 35 
Ordinary grades. 24 @ 28 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 40 @ 42 
Tub. choice. 34 @ 37 
Chickens, roasting, lb. 20 © 27 
Broilers.commontogoinl.il). 25 ig> 26 
Fricassee, lb... 18 @ 20 
Fowls . 18 @ 23 
Turkeys. 23 @ 25 
Leg of lamb. 18 @ 20 
Lamb chops. 16 @ 20 
Roasting beef . . 18 @ 22 
Stewing beef . 12 @ 16 
Pork chops...?.... Is @ 20 
Loin of Pork . 17 @ 20 
Round Steak . IS @ 22 
In the recent severe outbreak of foot 
and mouth disease, 101,176 animals were 
destroyed, the total cost for inspection, 
veterinary work and value of animals 
being §2,129,138.04. 
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recently, we open a department here to enable 
RURAL NEW-YORKER readers to supply each 
other’s wants. If you want to buy or sell or 
exchange, make it known here. This Rate will 
be 5 Cents a word, payable in advance. The 
name and address must be counted as part of 
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later than Friday to appear in the following 
week. No display type used, and only Farm 
Products, Help and Positions Wanted admitted. 
For subscribers only. Dealers, jobbers and gen¬ 
eral manufacturers’ announcements not admit¬ 
ted here. Poultry, Eg; 3 and other live stock 
advertisements will go under proper headings on 
otlor pages. Seed and Nursery advertisements 
will not be accepted for this column. 
MAN, 29. wants position on farm; sober and 
reliable. H. D., care R. N.-Y. 
Subscribers Exchange 
OUR GRADUATES will lie ready to accept posi 
tions as Dairymen, Poultrynien. Horticultur¬ 
ists and General Farm Help on March 1. 1913. 
Applications will he considered in the order re 
ceived. Address BARON DE I1IRSCH AGRI- 
CULTURAL SCHOOL, Woodbine, N. J., Dept. B. 
FARM SUPT. wants position Mar. 1, where dili¬ 
gent efforts will lie appreciated—those want¬ 
ing an average farm supt., so called, please 
don’t write. If you have something to offer 
requiring intelligence, honesty and capacity to 
make good communicate with PLATT II. 
CREED, Freehold, N. J. 
WANTED—Work on a farm by young man, 
aged 19, now residing with parents and go¬ 
ing to High School. Seeks training in up-to- 
date farming methods, as planning to go to 
Agricultural College later. Good home and stir 
roundings more important than big pay. Am 
strong and willing to worl: hard’. Address I). 
H. C.. care RURAL NEW YORKER. 
WANTED—An ambitions, energetic American or 
German young man: one who lias been brought 
up on a farm; is a good milker and knows how 
to handle horses; to such a person I will give a 
good home, fair wages, and an opportunity, if 
he will take an interest in Ids work, to learn 
up-to-date farming and increase his wages if lie 
will stay with me. Send copy of references and 
full particulars regarding yourself first letter. 
F. W. COREY, R. F.*f>. No. 4. Newburgh. 
APPLES, APPLES. APPLES—For choice spray¬ 
ed Winter Apples. Please order to-day. C. J. 
YODER. Grantsville, Md. 
100 TONS choice mixed hay for sale: $16 per 
ton f.o.b. New Milford. N. Y. HERMAN 
BERGER, Peaehblow Farm, New Milford, N. Y. 
JERSEY FARMERS—Quote me on 13 barrels 
potatoes per month to July. ('. W. GOOD 
WIN, Supt., Smith Infirmary, Toiupkinsville, 
IIA V E several ears wheat and oats straw for 
sale at $14.50 New York rate freight, also 
have hay for sale. MILLER HAY OO., Monroe¬ 
ville, Ohio. 
FOR SALE—Seven passenger ‘‘American” tour¬ 
ing ear in first class condition: could' he made 
into iKtwerftil truck; will sell for cash or ex¬ 
change for registered Holstelns having value of 
$ ( '- ; O : might consider other live stock trade. 
GREENFIELD FARMS. Center Square, Peuna. 
FOR SALE—80-acre farm; ample buildings; 
everything best condition. L. LEE, Broadal 
bin, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Good income property. Would 
trade for good farm. F. W. SHOW, Forest 
Depot. V a. 
FOR SALE—-Connecticut farm. 200 acres, frill' 
and dairy. $10,000. OWNER, Box 31, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
BARGAIN—Farm 150 acres in Rerkshires. 
Good house—ample buildings, stock, imple¬ 
ments. E. RAYNOR, State Line, Mass. 
FOR SALE—-Fruit and poultry farm of 26 acres, 
near town of 2.500 population. For particii 
lars address McNKICE A- SON, Harrington. Del. 
* 
Our postal savings banks now have 
§59,200.000 from 497,000 depositors. The 
New York office lias $9,4S6,538, which 
is three times as much as any other city. 
Bailing Rye Straw. 
T am growing rye as a venture here 
and would like to know what size bale of 
straw the market demands? n. g. 
Virginia. 
Straw reaches New York in hales of 
various sizes. Perhaps the most popular 
is the bale about four feet long and tied 
with 7%-foot wire. This will ordinarily 
run about 200 pounds. If the straw is 
left in bundles and-each one stepped on 
and folded over while filling the box, a 
neat .square-ended bale will result which 
lo ds nicely in the car and sells better 
than one with straggling locks at the 
corners. In pressing straw small bun¬ 
dles work better than large. 
Jan. 25. Prices for farm products are 
at this place: Lard, 11; tallow, 6; but¬ 
ter, 32; eggs. 30: meats, per hundred, 
pork, §12; hoof, §12. Grain, per bushel, 
wheat, §1.35; corn, 75; oats, 50; rye, §1; 
chickens are worth 12c. per pound live; 
dried apples. 4c.; onions, 60c. per bushel. 
Kratzerville, Pa. R. E. R. 
Jan. 25. Earth covered with snow, 
sun lias hardly shone this year; storm¬ 
ing or cloudy every day. Prices are ever 
on the increase; wheat §1.40 bu., flour 
that every one must have §3.80 per 100 
pounds; bran, §1.50; middlings, $1.75; 
Hominy meal. $1.60; oil meal, §1.70; 
gluten meal. §1.75; corn. 80c. bushel; 
oats. 60; potatoes, 70. Not much doing 
in stock just now. Horses not as high as 
a year ago; cows a ready sale any time, 
§50 to §150. There are some here valued 
much higher, but not for sale. Hogs rath¬ 
er scarce and high-priced; market hogs, 
8c. live; 11c. dressed; six-weeks pigs 
bring $6 and §7 pair; veals, 9c. lb. live; 
hens, 10^c.; roosters, same; butter, 30; 
eggs. 37. c. E. s. 
Columbiana Co., Ohio. 
Wheat, $1.45; corn, 77; butter, 22 to 
25; eggs, 20; Spring chickens, 11 1 {>; 
hens, 12; choice country lard, 12*4; 
hay, §15 to §16 a ton. Above are prices 
paid to farmers by local merchants. 
Lexington, Va., Jan. 28. I. w. w. 
Jan. 25. We now have enough snow 
for good sleighing; some are drawing hay 
and logs. A few grade Holstein cows 
have been bought at §60 to §75 j>er head. 
The ice men have commenced their har¬ 
vest on Chautauqua Lake. Ice is about 
16 inches thick. Western draft horses 
have been shipped in to several towns in 
this county. The price is about §600 a 
pair. p. s. S. 
Mayvillo, N. Y. 
AMERICAN, 17. wants poultry farm position; 
some experience. NEW JERSEY, care R. 
N.-Y. 
FARMER, married, childless, age 38 life ex¬ 
perience. desires position; references. G. F. 
NEIPP, Chatham. N. J. 
PRACTICAL POULT R Y M A N, single, reliable, 
seeks position, private or commercial; best 
references. BOX 33, care R. N.-Y. 
FARMER—Scotch Protestant, practical in all 
details, wishes gentleman’s well equipped 
farm to run on shares. W., Care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED March 1 by young single 
American on dairy or general farm; good 
milker, sober. MIKE GLADIS, Market St., 
Garfield, N. J. 
THOROUGHLY COMPETENT MAN wants |K>- 
sition as gnrdner or farm foreman to take 
charge. HARRY C. BUCHIIOUT, 533 W. 145 
St.. N. Y. City. 
FARMER'S SON wants position on poultry 
farm; March first; some experience; can fur¬ 
nish good reference. Address GEORGE SNOOK, 
AHamuchy, N. J. 
WANTED—Position as manager or assistant, 
poultry farm, practical experience, references 
exchanged. L. R. YAN WINKLE, 702 E. Buf¬ 
falo St., Ithaca, N. Y. 
WANTED—Partner with some capital to enlarge 
a goad paying poultry business and add poul¬ 
try supplies: investigate at once. RIVER HEAD 
FARM, Old Mystic, Conn. 
WANTED AT ONCE—-Single man. experienced 
in fruits, small fruits and poultry on small 
general farm. Hudson Yalley; state wages. L. 
II.. care Rural New-Yorker. 
MARRIED MAN 34, experienced in general 
fanning, wants responsible position on mod¬ 
ern up-to-date farm. H. D. FRENCH, It. D. 
No. 4, Cooperstown. N. Y. 
CITY MAN, unmarried, wants to learn sanitary 
milk production. City or country. Board 
and small wages expected; steady. Care 
RURAL NEW-YORKER, 333 W. 30tb St. 
ONTARIO Veterinary College graduate desires 
position on salary. 19 years’ experience; satis¬ 
factory references as to character and ability. 
Address COOPERSTOWN, New York. R. D. 5, 
Bo x 69. 
POSITION WANTED by Apr. first, as working 
farm manager, by temperate married Ameri¬ 
can with long experience in farm management 
and good executive ability. BOX 246, Rock¬ 
land, Mass. 
TRUCKER WANTED—First class t'-in-ker to 
handle about ten acres of diversified truck 
crops on tlie eastern shore of Maryland. Be¬ 
gin immediately. THOROUGHFARE FARMS, 
Ocean City, Md. 
SINGLE MAN, 25. short course student, desires 
position. experienced herdsman, dairyman, 
buttermaker, Babcock test, etc.; good knowledge 
of poultry: good references. II. E. ARM¬ 
STRONG. 113 Tremont Ave., Orange, N. J. 
WANTED—A position as working foreman on 
gentleman’s estate, by American, thoroughly 
experienced in all branches of farming; honest, 
solier and always on job: best of references. D. 
ERNEST PENNEY, R. D. 28. Coscob, Conn. 
POSITION WANTED—As working manager; 
married; practical in all branches of farming 
and dairying, handling all farm machinery, gas¬ 
oline engine, orchard!;, care and raising of stock 
and horses. Address n. K., Rural Ne\V-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—7*4. acres fruit and poultry farm, 
Rockland County, 30 miles from N. Y. Ad 
dress, FRUIT AND POULTRY, Care The It. N.- 
FOR SALE—67 acre farm, new buildings, ex¬ 
tra location, for price and description, ad¬ 
dress JOHN M. CRANDALL, Jamestown, N. 
Y. 
WANTED—To lease or buy. good dairy, poultry. 
fruit farm, or will accept management, of 
same. EXPERIENCED FARMER. Rural New 
Yorker. 
I-’OR SALE—598 acres, 93 miles up-State: 2 res¬ 
idences, 6 barns, near railroad: $30 acre: 
would divide. FERTILE, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
WANT TO RENT —Good farm and pay in labor. 
Will rent 200 acre farm near Providence, R. 
L Fine opportunity for progressive, intelligent 
Farmer. H. BOYD, West Broad' St., Bethle¬ 
hem, Pa. 
FARM FOR SALE—130 acres: orchard, small 
fruit, sugar trees, woodland, watered pastures, 
house seven rooms and bath, steam heated: in 
fine conditions; barns, sheds. Address ROBERT 
LINKE, Barnard, Yermont. 
PECAN ORCHARD, five acres; just outside city 
limits of De Land', Florida: eigbt-vear-ohl 
trees, good varieties; ample room between for 
orange or grapefruit trees; price, $1,000; easy 
terms. GOULD-WOOTTEX CO., De Land, Fla. 
FOR SALE—Poultry farm selling baby chicks 
and pullets; yields $2,500 annually; new and 
up-to-date; conveniently located. near New 
York. Price, $9,000. For particulars and circu¬ 
lar. address Box 32, Care R. N.-Y., 333 W. 30th 
St., N. Y. C. 
FOR SALE-—150 acres, 50 A. of the best tim¬ 
ber in Richland Co. Second bottom laud, 
drained. Large springs. Buildings complete. 
On State road, 4 miles from county seat. $85 
acre. Stock and chattel sale, March 16th. J. 
It. NISSLEY, Mansfield, Ohio. 
FOR SALE—Nine acre poultry and fruit farm 
in village along Delaware and Hudson rail¬ 
road; 10 minutes’ walk depot: eight miles from 
citv: state road; city and spring watered; good 
buildings; furnace heat: priee, $3,000; easy 
terms. ROCKDALE, R. !>.. Box 3. N. Y. 
FOR SALE—An up-to-date chicken farm on 
outskirts of Boro of Marietta; 3 lots of 
ground 120 feet on main road, 200 feet deep, in 
eluding large 2-story frame dwelling witli con¬ 
veniences, five modern chicken houses in good 
repair, tool house and fruit trees; an opportunity 
for anyone interested in chicken raising. Ad¬ 
dress Box 221, Marietta, Pa. 
OWNER will sell his farm of 460 acres three 
miles from Syracuse on State road, plenty of 
good buildings, fine dairy or truck farm, 200 
acres in Alfalfa, clover and Timothy, 120 acres 
fine muck land, part of which produced 750 
bushels onions per acre last year, balance for 
grain and pasture. Address BOX 309, Syracuse, 
MARYLAND FARM—Competent farmer with 
grown son, or able bodied man as help, with 
team for 150 acre farm on shares. Six room 
dVelling and outbuildings. One mile from Sal¬ 
isbury. Immediate possession given. Also two 
smaller places. Don't answer unless prepared 
to farm intensively. DOCTOR BELL, Salis¬ 
bury, Md. 
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